Clergy reserve
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Clergy reserves were tracts of land in Upper Canada and Lower Canada reserved for the support of "Protestant clergy" by the Constitutional Act 1791. One-seventh of all surveyed Crown lands were set as
John Strachan
Bishop Jacob Mountain
Robert Baldwin
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Robert Baldwin was an Upper Canadian lawyer and politician who with his political partner Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine of Lower Canada, led the first responsible government ministry in the Province of C
Clergy reserve
…from such activity amounting to only £3 between 1791 and 1837. Pressure arose to reform the entire structure of the reserves, but the government of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine chose not to proceed on such a course, because of the resistance of the established churches and the roadblocks presented…
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Alfred Laliberté's Robert Baldwin sculpture in front of Parliament Building (Quebec)
John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham.
The Temple of the Children of Peace, Sharon